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20 Aug, 2018 ‘Viserion’ ships SSS Event #32 on Spartan

The festivities on The Spartan Poker were all set to come to an end yesterday, being the final day of the popular Spartan Super Series (SSS), where a series guarantee of INR 3.7+ crore was up for grabs. The final day began slightly earlier than the usual start time, with quite a few tou...

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Poker

20 Aug, 2018 Vikram Singh wins SSS Event #33 on Spartan

Poker players all over India would’ve been extremely excited yesterday, as The Spartan Poker had quite a few big tournaments being hosted as a part of the Spartan Super Series (SSS), a series which offered over INR 3.7 crore in guaranteed prizes and which concluded yesterday. The ...

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Poker

20 Aug, 2018 Bhanu Prakash wins final SSS tournament on Spartan

It was high-octane stuff at the virtual felts of The Spartan Poker yesterday, as the prestigious Spartan Super Series (SSS) had its last day in play. Reserved for the last day were some extremely big events, with Sahil Agarwal winning the Big Daddy tournament, ‘Mishtabond’ s...

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India

20 Aug, 2018 Nitin Arora wins Destiny Europe Poker Package

We’ve come to the end of a tournament series that has lasted 10 long weeks on The Spartan Poker. Every Wednesday, one Destiny winner was crowned from hundreds of players, and after the end of 10 Wednesdays, these winners were all set to play in the grand finale of Destiny 5.0! Bef...

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Poker

20 Aug, 2018 Spartan’s Little Big Series starts this Thursday

We just about caught our breath with the completion of the Spartan Super Series (SSS) when its time for poker lovers to set their sights on the next tournament series taking place at The Spartan Poker. Since its introduction, less than a year ago, the Little Big Series (LBS), has proved...

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Poker

20 Aug, 2018 USA’s Jaepil You bags APT Championships Event

The APT Korea Incheon Championships 2018 ran for five days from the 15th to the 19th August 2018. Entering his first APT event was USA’s Jaepil You, besting a field of 148 entrants to bag the top prize of KRW 49,770,000 (~INR 30.98 lakh), the APT Championship Trophy and the APT Ch...

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Poker

19 Aug, 2018 SSS: ‘KIM28’ wins final event of Day 6

Day 6 at the Spartan Super Series was about repeat winners. It started with Siddarth ‘PeterPunter’ Singhvi winning his third SSS title of the series and the end of this day’s action almost saw yet another repeat winner but he was foiled as ‘KIM28’ went on t...

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Gambling

19 Aug, 2018 70 arrested in Mumbai Gambling Crackdown

There have been crackdowns on illegal gambling across the country and most recently there were two raids which took place on two Mumbai and Thane gambling dens which led to the arrest of more than 70 people. Matka and Teen Patti gambling were taking place at the venues when the raids we...

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There are many tournaments that are taking place across various poker platforms. Both Indian and international poker platforms are offering some high value tournaments for poker players, both for pros and newbies. Tournaments series like India Online Poker Championship (IOPC) and Final Table Series are very well-known in the Indian poker circuit. Poker players always look forward to participating in these tournament series as they offer massive guarantees. The poker game as we all know is a very thrilling one.

Aspiring poker players look for poker games through which they can get some great learnings. Online poker took prominence after live tournaments came to a halt due to the COVID-19 lockdown. Online poker news generated had players winning big in these online poker tournaments. All the poker platforms across the globe had to adapt to the new online poker system, owing to the pandemic. Now, everyone who is enthusiastic about poker will play poker online, and will wait till live tournaments are held more frequently.

Good news is that some international poker brands have slowly steadily kick-started getting the live poker tournaments rolling. Many poker players are eagerly looking forward to seeing what the live tournaments feel like in a post lockdown era. The poker news fraternity is also looking forward to covering some action packed poker tournaments.

Poker news is also covered with respect to some major business happenings across the globe. Be it mergers or acquisitions, these business deals include massive money. Readers are intrigued to know how the global poker scene is shaping up with these business deals. The poker platforms are expanding their bases, and gradually adding more value for the players as well.

Poker news is read widely, and makes for some interesting read as well. Poker new sites also cover in-depth analysis of some high value tournaments that are hosted globally. Many poker players take these poker news stories as their study material on a regular basis. Poker news is all the more important as it tells you, which poker platform or poker player is making headlines. The growth of the poker scene, both national and international becomes very crucial to track. 

In India there are some poker platforms that always make headlines. Poker rooms like Spartan Poker, PokerBaazi, Adda52, Natural8, Calling Station, PokerStars India, 9stacks among others always get covered due to the popularity aspect and how poker players flock their sites to play poker.

Poker news also comes from players venturing into different arenas like poker commentary, live-streaming and poker coaching. Many veteran poker players in India have taken to poker coaching as it gives them immense joy to coach budding poker players. Poker news comes from poker tournaments which have an underdog winning poker tournaments that nobody expected. The poker news is always thrilling to read as it covers the complete low down of what went down on various poker felts.

Online poker is also expanding its wings. Earlier poker players preferred the live poker set-up. But, due to the pandemic lockdown, players had to adapt to the regular online poker tournaments. There are many poker sites in India and abroad who are competing daily with each other to make sure that poker news is disseminated quickly and regularly to millions of readers out there.

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Talking about poker news and its importance it is crucial to also look at the legality of the poker game. States like Goa and Sikkim are allowed to have casinos and the union territory of Daman. While other states like Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Odisha, Nagaland, Tamil Nadu, Arunachal Pradesh, Kerala and Telangana do not allow online poker. State governments have the right to construct the legislations for their respective states. The legislations are different in various states.

Even after the Supreme Court defining clearly what is a game of chance and what is a game of skill, the state governments have gone ahead to put in place the legislation as per their will. The final ruling to allow or disallow online gaming stays with the head of state. There has been a lot of furore about the state governments making different rulings. The operators in the online gaming industry have specifically voiced their displeasure. In states where online poker is allowed, the online poker platforms have witnessed growth in terms of user base and revenue state the news reports.

Many poker platforms in the country have been steadily witnessing growth as more and more people come on board. The poker tournaments have seen their advertised prize pools getting crushed. The poker fanatics across the country are heavily participating in online poker tournaments. The poker community in India is growing and the number of professional poker players is also seeing a sharp rise. The Indian poker community is making headlines with their winnings and achievements and poker platforms too are making sure that players get a best-in-class experience while playing the poker game.